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Originally Posted by 20yrsinBranson
We've all been exposed at some point or another to "corporate speak". It seems the latest incarnation of this is..... "Moving Forward".
We will be "moving forward" with this plan. *or*
Please use this concept "moving forward"
Honestly, I bet I have heard this phrase 50 times in the last week. Enough already. Can we please do a different trite, hackneyed over-used term now, moving forward? yipes
20yrsinBranson
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I don't just hate corporate speak I don't tolerate it which is the biggest reason I can never work for a large company.
It's not that I just hate corporate speak but I despise the people that use it. They suck and my opinion of corporate speakers goes down from there.
Last large company I worked for, worked for two over the last nearly 40 years, and got fired from both. Anyway, at the last one our single and bimbo secretary got herself pregnant but it isn't like it happened before. She was already a single mom, barely making it on her secretary pay so she go gets herself knocked up by yet another guy who skipped on her after a DUI in which he wrecked her uninsured car in the parking lot of her subsidized public housing apartment. I think you got the picture here, a monument to personal responsibility.
The pregnancy had problems, she started spotting, stayed at home for two months before she lost the baby.
When news got out corporate called me, I was working as a "district manager" whatever that means, and suggested I have flowers sent to her hospital room.
I told the HR lady I wasn't going to send flower, that she lost the pregnancy wasn't a time for sorrow but celebration. Celebration because what the world didn't need is another dad growing up to a single mother in the projects without a father.
Dingbat HR lady asked me what I meant by that, I think my attitude kind of surprised her a bit and not knowing what to say she said goodbye and hung up.
My boss calls me, tells me I really should send flowers. I said no, if he wanted flowers sent he could send them but condolence flowers were not appropriate at this time of celebration and maybe a happy mum might be better.
Our relationship kind of went downhill from here out with one thing after another and me incapable of keeping my mouth shut.
"District Manager", that was my title and when I hired on I wasn't sure what it all meant but I could engineer, I could estimate and I could sell so what else was there? I found out later what it was, it was what I was doing for half of my life and that was running a business, doing all the work of running a business except in this case I would keep only 10% of the profits. What's up with that, if I do all the work why don't I just set up my own company and keep 100% of the profits instead of 10%? It's not like I hadn't done it before.
They wanted me to work 80 hours a week and while I was willing to work 40 or 50 if it was 80 they wanted then I wanted all the profits. When I voiced my opinion to the regional manager it kind of went bad but I did do it my way.
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Annoying Corporate Speak
.....Too funny! I love the word synergy!! I have heard that a time or two in the past!
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